NOUN | animal | genus Mononychus | authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur |
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Meaning | authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur. | |
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Member of | Maniraptora, suborder Maniraptora | Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds |
Members | Mononychus olecranus | A turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's |
Broader | reptile genus | A genus of reptiles |
Spanish | genus mononychus | |
Catalan | genus mononychus |
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